Birds South East

Number 69 April 2014

Early birds arriving at the Valley Lakes Wildlife Park in Mt Gambier for a guided tour

Long-billed Corella Spotted Pardalote Guided bird tour at Common Blackbird Striated Thornbill Valley Lakes - Wildlife Eastern Yellow Robin Laughing Kookaburra White-naped Honeyeater European Goldfinch Park, Mt Gambier Grey Currawong Magpie-lark Eurasian Coot Red Wattlebird A group of 28 people recently attended the first European Greenfinch Crested Shrike-tit “Valley Lake Wildlife Park guided walk”, on the 23rd of February, a free event run by members of Hoary-headed Grebe BirdLife South East SA, with 31 species of birds By Bob Green identified. Some of the birds were more difficult to spot but were identified by call and the calls pointed out to Contents those present. Some of the highlights were species 1. Valley Lakes guided bird tour like Crested Shrike-tit and Spotted Pardalote, also seeing Dusky Moorhens leading their young around 2. Australsian Ornitholopgical Conference, NZ the water’s edge. 3. Rainbow Report More walks of this type will be run in the future so 3. Bird response to hot weather keep your eyes open for advertised dates if you are interested. 4. Wader Notes Some of the birds seen or heard included: 5. The Bluff AGM and Banded bird search Musk Duck Willie Wagtail 6. Nature’s Notes

Dusky Moorhen Australian Wood Duck 8-12. Calendar of Events/Contacts/Sightings

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DECEMBER 2013 AUCKLAND Wrybill, NZ Dotterel, Sharpies, Pectoral and Curlew Sandpipers. We also managed to get 10 colour AUSTRALASIAN ORNITHOLOGICAL flagged or banded godwits which we reported at the CONFERENCE centre. One of the people at the centre was glad we had I was fortunate to be able to attend the seventh seen the Pectoral Sandpiper as she had found one Australasian Ornithological Conference (AOC), held the day before but no one else had seen it until we in Auckland, NZ. The support from the BirdLife did, we met her again later at the conference and it South East SA branch is much appreciated. was Inke Veltheim (the Brolga researcher). The conference is held every two years and is The conference was a great three days of fantastic hosted by BirdLife Australia and the Ornithological talks on a wide variety of topics, with a good mix of Society of New Zealand. more experienced researchers and students. Getting to hear talks about birds that we had only I had allowed for four days of birding before the seen in the previous few days was great. My talk conference so we got to visit some great places about the restoration of Pick Swamp and our bird around Auckland, Tawharanhui Regional Reserve monitoring was the very last talk for the was the pick of them, it is about an hour north of conference, some of the comments was that it was Auckland and is located on a peninsula, a predator great to finish on such a positive story, and heaps proof fence stretches across the entrance to keep of questions from Australians hoping to visit the predators off the peninsula. As soon as we pulled up site. at the car park we were astounded with the number of birds calling, something we found noticeably The organised field trip on one of the middle days absent at previous spots. The Ranger at the park of the conference were a real success, great guiding told us the best trails to take and we saw stunners and hosting by the Auckland birdos, we took the like Kaka, Yellowhammer, had great views of male option to visit Tiritiri Matangi Island which is about California Quail, and was tipped off to a reliable spot an hour by ferry, baiting and trapping has removed for Brown Teal. This is a must see location for all the introduced predators from the island and anyone visiting Auckland!!! Kaka was definitely one once again birds were numerous, highlights were of my birding highlights for the whole trip. Kakariki, Stitchbird, and Kokako. The pelagic trip (we didn’t do) managed to see two NZ Storm-Petrels, if you don’t know the story it’s an amazing one, thought to be extinct, a bird was photographed that no one could identify until a museum curator thought it resembled this species, more work was done, photos taken, birds caught and measured and eventually a breeding site was found. The talk is that the next AOC could be held in Adelaide in 2015, if it is and you have the chance I highly recommend you take the opportunity to attend, there are so many really interesting research stories that get presented and a great bunch of people to spend a few days with. Bob Green Miranda Shorebird Centre was another great spot, By Bob Green two hides overlook a high tide roost, the thing I found strange in NZ was the number of larger waders, small waders were a rarity to see. At Miranda there was a huge number of birds on offer, we didn’t bother counting as others were already doing that but the totals of the main species were 3500 Bar-tailed Godwit, 1500 Red Knot and 700 Oystercatchers of two species. There was a single Black-tailed Godwit mixed in which we found easy to pick as we noticed it to be the only godwit in full breeding plumage. Other birds we found were

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RAINBOW REPORT therefore surprising that birds habitually live in flocks, such as Babblers and Choughs seem to have maintained their numbers better than species that Last year, from my point of view, was in many ways are solitary or just pairs. The migrants have also a forgettable one, with all the reasons being on the dropped off. Tree Martins have left early. Cockatiels health front. For seven months I was plagued by have not arrived at all and I have seen only one debilitating angina attacks, some of which were Budgie this summer. quite hard to control and my mobility has slipped backwards, getting old is a deeply flawed system. But looking at the habitat changes brought about On the plus side the angina attacks stopped as by climate change in the last 20 years, the crash of suddenly as they started back in September and Bill bird populations is not surprising. Overall rainfall and I did get away, apart from coming back from has dropped with most years well below the long Queensland in January and a bit of local birding that term average, but possibly more important has was it for the year. been the trend to more light showers and much fewer events of more than an inch. As a result most However, despite the health issues, I finished 2013 of the older Red Gums (>300years) in the lower with 308 birds on the year list and a bonus of two reaches of the Wimmera River and around the lakes ticks as well, Eungella Honeyeater and Rufous are now dead, taking away an awful lot of canopy Scrub-bird, bringing my Oz list to 706. Getting over and much of the shrubby understorey of the Black 300 birds in a year is not all that easy unless you Box woodland is also dead, reducing the Black Box live at Julatten or one of the other very bird rich to a much simpler ecosystem of grassy woodland. spots in Australia. It is probably the last time I'll be In other words, the carrying capacity of the habitats able to do over 300 in a year. has gone down through the cellar floor and without My Australian list is for the biological entity of an unlikely long term turnaround of the rainfall Australia and doesn't include Norfolk and Lord Howe pattern, it will stay there. In south-eastern which are more akin to New Zealand biologically or Australia there are no benefits to climate change for Christmas and Cocos Keeling which are both way the bird watcher. west of Wallace's Line and biologically in Asia. The By John Berggy, Rainbow, 6 February 2014 list follows Christidis and Boles for the most part, but I accept SOSSA's taxonomy for the seabirds and BIRD RESPONSE TO HOT WEATHER some of the allopatric splits that Schodde and Mason propose, including Silver-backed Butcherbird Monday 13th January the temperature reached and Nullarbor Quailthrush which don't conform to 35d. It was the beginning of that stinker of a week. Bergmans, Allen's and Cloger's rules. While the Bernice and I went down to the latter doesn't crack a mention in The Action Plan Block for a BBQ tea and to check on the bird pool. 2000, it is now hard to find and appears to be declining, like far too many of our birds. It was dry and dirty.. This was not surprising as we had not been down for about a week. The Pool When I came here in 2005, the bird watching was leaks a bit, but the Grey Roos, The Swamp very good, with summer lists in the 40's and winter Wallabies and, I suspect, the Wombats drink at it at lists in the 30's. Now there are not only far fewer times, And I might say deface it ? birds, but some species I can no longer find. It is more than two years since I've seen a Chestnut- However I cleaned it out and ran water from the backed Quailthrush; three years since a Little tank into it. Within 2 minutes the Grey Fantails Button-quail or Painted Button-quail, the same for were in bathing and in the 15 minutes it takes to Brush Bronzewing and Diamond Dove and the list fill, twenty birds would have arrived, at varying could go on and on and be up to or even more than times, to drink and bath. twenty species that just don't seem to be here The list is as follows: Eastern Spine Bill 2, Fairy anymore. Wren1, female , probably Superb, Brush It's not only species that have gone missing, but Bronzewing 1, Black Birds, a pair, White- browed numbers as well. While I haven't tried to keep Scrub Wren 1, New Holland Honeyeater, oodles, records because my records would be too small a Silvereye 1, Striated Thornbill 2, Little Wattlebirds 2 sample to be useful, my overall impression is that or3, Grey Fantails 5. bird numbers for most species are down by more I comment the Fantails were very aggressive and than 80%. A winter mixed species flock in 2005 and flew about disturbing the other birds. We moved 2006 was commonly 40 plus individuals. Now it is about having Tea and they took very little notice. usually less than ten. At such a low number, the flock is less able to detect and warn when predators By Bernice & Neil Dickins arrive and percentage losses are greater. It is not

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WADER NOTES French Point, Wednesday 19th March. Main task for the day was to cut back encroaching coastal wattle at the Danger Point Hide. We were rewarded Big Lake, Lake George on the afternoon of 29th with extremely good wader watching – the tide was March. high, and there was a film of water over the sand I approached the lake via the public access near the reaching back towards the hide. Waders were Woakwine turnoff. And discovered why I haven’t busily feeding in this shallow water, and also in the been seeing very many stint on the beach – there piles of weed. Mainly stint, but also turnstone, seemed to be stint everywhere I looked! They were curlew sandpipers, sanderling, red-caps and a few scattered, feeding on the dry pan floor as well as at double-banded plover. But not one Golden Plover. the water’s edge. Stretching off in each direction, We were soon to find out why. Surfers were out at as far as the eye could see. Red-capped plovers French Point, taking advantage of the beautiful day mixed in amongst them. But, what were the larger and high tide. They had no effect on the waders, waders feeding in the water? Much to my delight, who were well camouflaged on the rocky reef still they were Curlew Sandpipers. exposed just to the east of the surfers. Slowly we could make out the waders – 102 Golden Plover, 3 Grey-tailed Tattler, 1 Greenshank, 1 Double-banded Plover and a few stint, turnstone and red-caps. Were there any Grey Plovers? A relative rarity here, several have been seen this summer. The flock was put to flight, and they obligingly turned again and again as only waders can. Three sets of binoculars as we all scanned with one object in mind .... and no, not one black armpit was seen. Private Beach, Gerloff Bay, Carpenter Rocks. This season a pair of Pied Oystercatchers had 2 chicks on this beach, one of which we banded on 7.11.2013. I was anxious to catch the chicks and flag them both. I spent day after day huddled Maureen Christie under shade cloth, watching. I spied one chick occasionally, but was never able to find it once I I turned to the north. Waterfowl and waders had climbed down from my perch. On the 15th aplenty. Swans, White-faced Herons, Pelicans December, just as I was about to give up, a small ...... a flock of white birds rose from the marshy group of waders flew in...... 4, yes 4, Common fresh water soaks – 20 Royal Spoonbills. They Sandpipers! We usually have one or two common landed at the lake edge, joining another 20, too sands each summer, but to see four in one flock is distant for me to be positive that there were no most unusual. Yellow-billed in their number. As I watched a Swamp Harrier flew over, and clouds of ducks flew up. Mainly Shelduck and Grey Teal. Scattered small groups of Banded Stilt – but no flags seen. I continued on, past the old fish farm. Despite poor lighting, I had hopes of managing a photo with Banded Stilt, Spoonbills and Greenshank all in the one shot! Of course I didn’t manage it, but seeing them all together was magic. On the pan yet another wader species – Double Banded Plover, their dark backs and upright stance making them easy to distinguish from the stints. Finally, with waders still ahead, I decided to turn for home not too far short of the north east corner. Counting season is over, the summer Shorebirds 2020 count Maureen Christie of Lake George was done a month ago by Iain Stewart and Wendy and David Trudgen and so it was a pleasure for me to be simply bird watching! But I couldn’t resist doing a rough count of two species not recorded on the count - 100 Curlew Sandpiper and 50 Double Banded Plover.

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COUNTING THE BLUFF AGM AND BANDED BIRD

HOODED PLOVER – FLEGDLING COUNT SEARCH Week commencing 28th April. We aim to count the area Kingston through to the Vic Border to help us Fifteen bird watchers came out for the AGM and make an assessment on how successful the current banded bird search in March up at the Bluff corridor breeding season has been. Much of the area is with hosts BirdLife SE SA (Bob) and ForestrySA counted by Barry while on fox baiting runs, but (Bryan). there are several areas that he needs help with. If After a quick site induction/risk assessment we you are interested in helping, please contact Jeff or went over the history of the projects and findings to me. date at the Bluff corridor. Bryan began with a discussion about the biodiversity corridors project SHOREBIRDS 2020 – Winter count and the areas established, how, when and who. It's As I type this, winter seems a long way off. But it amazing to think that the project has been running will be here before we know it. At this stage we unofficially since the 1990's. ForestrySA Officers have not selected a date, much depends on the (past and present) Barrie Grigg and Troy Horn were vagaries of winter weather. But, if you would like to instrumental in developing the program and writing be involved, contact Jeff or me. the strategy and Sharn Lucas for furthering implementation in 2005. We are now over a third of WEEKLY OUTINGS the way through a ~25yr program. We usually go out each Tuesday…….so that you can A monitoring program was developed with a be told where and when the activity will be - ring steering group in 2005 (led by Sharn) to try and on landline Monday evening – 8738 0014. determine the best fauna group to survey for, and of course, it was birds. They were seen as the FLAG SIGHTINGS – PLEASE NOTE CHANGED easiest group to observe and record. And the REPORTING DETAILS steering group thought they would be the most responsive to native vegetation growth in the newly Oystercatcher flag/coloured band sightings to be establishing corridors. made to David Trudgen - [email protected]. Turnstone engraved flag sightings and Hooded Bob then discussed the annual bird monitoring Plover colour flagged sightings made Vic coast program and its findings. The bird monitoring is through to Kingston – [email protected]. now in its 8th year!! To spread the word of this All other flag sightings – whenever possible – via project and to seek further advice Bob and Bryan the AWSG website - attended the Australasian Ornithological Conference http://www.awsg.org.au/reportform.php. If in Armidale in 2009 and presented a poster required, email contact - [email protected]. presentation about the biodiversity corridors and Roger Standen has taken on the huge task of bird monitoring protocols. The best advice that managing the AWSG flag data base. Banded Stilt came back was for us to 'band birds' to further our observations can be sent to Reece Pedler - understanding of movements, use and ultimately [email protected], or me. genetic exchange between patches at either end of the corridors.

So, we engaged the help of Wendy and David By Maureen Christie, Friends of Shorebirds, SE. Trudgen, A-class banders to supervise a banding 08 87380014, mobile 0427380014, project at the Bluff to Woolwash corridor. Since autumn 2011 we have banded over 130 birds, a 30th March, 2014 selection of which have coloured bands attached. EMAIL ADDRESSES: Two colours have been used, white and orange and they were used at either ends of the corridor. The Mine - [email protected] number of banded birds is not enough and to date The Campbell Family - and no movements have been reported. [email protected] In 2012 temporary bird baths were set up with motion sensor cameras to enable observations of banded birds. A range of birds have been recorded

along with other fauna (including wallabies, kangaroos, echidna), thankfully no cats or foxes. In autumn 2014, the images are being analysed by

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NATURE’S NOTES

Sightings have reached 7738 observations of common, rare and threatened birds throughout the SE of SA and SW Victoria since September 2001. I thank you all for your contributions and keep up the good work in reporting the birds you’re seeing and for being part of BirdLife South East SA. Seasonal notes over the last few months have included; December 2013 December produced some great birds, White- winged Trillers seen on the 4th at Naracoorte and the 7th at Mt Monster CP, while 25 Glossy Ibis were students from Millicent High School with results yet at a paddock outside Kingston on the 4th. An to be uncovered. Australasian Bittern was spotted at a swamp on Before lunch we had a stroll through the corridor Lake Edward Rd. Glencoe on the 7th with a Blue- with binoculars and cameras in hand to find any billed Duck seen at Keith on the same day. At banded birds. After an hour or so, none were seen, Bordertown Wetlands on the 15th a couple of although every bird was inspected from head to toe. Freckled Duck and a lone White-fronted Honeyeater A handsome list was recorded with one or two not made an appearance, and on the same day c.1000 seen before. We made our way back to have lunch Straw-necked Ibis were at Poocher Swamp. On the and open up the AGM to report on activites and to 16th 14 Kelp Gulls were seen on the beach at Pick vote in our office bearers. The meeting welcomed Swamp, with a beach-washed White-headed Petrel Cassie Hlava (DEWNR - Woodland project officer) found nearby. A single Shy Heathwren was seen at and congratulated Jeff Davies for his 40yrs of Desert Camp CP on the 18th, while a huge flock of membership with BirdLife Australia. New members c.1000 White-browed Woodswallows were at to our committee included Angela Jones and Abigail Hender Scrub near Keith on the 20th along with 3 Goodman. Budgerigar. Only one banded bird was found for the day. A male Superb fairy wren with a white colour band. So not all was lost. By Bryan Haywood

A very vocal White-throated Gerygone was heard then seen in the Snow Gum to Dry Creek corridor on the 29th, a very rare record for the region, five Beautiful Firetails were spotted at Whynunga () on the 29th , and four Freckled Duck were at This photo is a ‘gap filler’ – What am I and what was I doing the Robe sewage Ponds on the last day of the year. while being photographed by an annoyed fisherman!!

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may be an abrupt line where they begin, so if you’ve got records please send them in to me, with coordinates please. Thirty Freckled Duck and 8 Blue-billed Duck were at Robe Treatment Ponds on the 24th, at Dickins Scrub, Carpenter Rocks a Rufous Bristlebird was spotted on the 24th as well. February 2014 February was a fairly quiet month for reports, on the 18th a possible/probable escapee Diamond Dove was at Pelican Point, at the guided walk held by our group at the Valley Lake Wildlife Park probably the best bird recorded was a Crested Angela Jones Shrike-tit, which is nice to see in the lakes area.

White-winged Choughs were at Rock Shelter Track, January 2014 Mt Burr on the 20th, a group of 20 or so Blue- winged Parrots were at Mia Mia Crossing on the On the 6th a hybrid Crimson/Eastern Rosella was 25th, and to finish the month an Australian Hobby photographed near Millicent, an Australasian Bittern was harassing birds over the Mt Gambier High was at Pick Swamp on the 8th, the 10th saw a small School oval on the 28th. flock of 30-40 Fork-tailed Swifts at Whynunga, Olive Whistlers were seen at Nelson and Cobbobonee on March 2014 the 10th, with a Powerful Owl also at Nelson on the Rufous Bristlebird seen again at Dickins Scrub on same day. the 1st, a Peregrine Falcon was circling low over The prize for best bird of the period goes to a very McGregor St, Mt Gambier on the 4th. White-winged lost Black-faced Monarch that decided to put in a Choughs were at Willalooka on the 6th, a Spotted brief appearance in a Millicent garden on the 17th Harrier was at Glencoe on the 6th , with a Spotted stunning the observer (a Birds SA Rarities Report Dove seen in Francis St, Mt Gambier. To end the has been lodged for this record). Hooded Plover sightings for this newsletter on the 16th an were recorded breeding on the 18th at Long Beach immature White-bellied Sea-Eagle was seen at Pick in Robe, on the 19th a Black Falcon was over Swamp during monthly monitoring, a new record Wangolina Station at Cape Jaffa, numerous Elegant for our monitoring at this site. Parrots were reported from 20km Nth of Tea-tree Could you please forward your sightings to me on [email protected] or post them to PO Box 3211, . Deadline for submitting sightings for next newsletter is 1st July 2014 By Bob Green

Crossing in the Coorong on the 23rd along with Rufous Bristlebirds, Striated Fieldwrens and Variegated Fairy-wrens. The latter three species were seen at 42 Mile Crossing on the 24th also. (It would be interesting to collect records of Variegated Fairy-wrens along the Coorong, as it seems there

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Calendar of Events Contacts

Friday April 11th to Sunday April 13th – Convenor, Sightings Coordinator, Conservation Contact Eaglehawk Waterhole (Bangham) Bob Green The camp site is known as Eaglehawk Waterhole and is a recently purchased property of the Nature [email protected] Glenelg Trust. The property is 680ha of beautiful SA (08) 8725 0549 Blue gum woodland with pockets of stringybark, manna-gum, box and buloke, and native pines, plus Secretary some open ground due to its farming history. Sue Black Camp from Fri afternoon (11th April) - Sun [email protected] afternoon (13th April) PO Box 7, Glencoe, SA, 5291 Leader Bob Green. Visiting Eaglehawk Waterhole Saturday and a private conservation area Sunday Deputy Convenor/OH&S morning. Wayne Bigg How to get there? Head up a 6 kilometres north of [email protected] Frances and the entrance is off the main highway on the right. Note: If you get to Munga Park gate Treasurer/Newsletter Editor/IBA Contact you’ve gone too far. Bryan Haywood Contact Bob Green on 8725 0549 or [email protected] [email protected] 08) 8726 8112 Saturday May 3rd - Red-tailed Black Committee Members Cockatoo Count Maureen Christie, Wendy Trudgen, Abigail To register your interest or secure your search Goodman and Angela Jones area for 2014, please contact Bronwyn Perryman on 1800 262 062 or email [email protected]. DEADLINES FOR SIGHTINGS/ARTICLES IN th OUR 2014 NEWSLETTERS Saturday 17th and Sunday 18 May – Orange-bellied Parrot Count. 1 July 2014 Contact Bob Green 8725 0549. 1 October 2014 Saturday 21st June – Robertson Cave, Naracoorte Caves NP outing. 8am, 3.5km along the Struan-Joanna Rd, Contact Bob Green 8725 0549.

April 2014 8 Sightings - November 2013 to March 2014

Date Common Name Abundance Location Observer/s 07-Dec-13 Australasian Bittern 1 Lake Edward Road, Glencoe Sue Black 08-Jan-14 Australasian Bittern 1 Piccaninnie Ponds Conservation Park BTHaywood 24-Jan-14 Australasian Shoveler 20+ Robe Treatment Ponds BTHaywood 05-Jan-14 Australian Hobby 1 Norfolk Island pines, Robe foreshore Vicki Natt 28-Feb-14 Australian Hobby 1 MGHS Oval, Mt Gambier Bob Green 23-Feb-14 Australian Pelican 2 Lake Leake, Glencoe Sue Black 31-Dec-13 Australian Spotted Crake 1 Fox/Pub Lakes, Robe BTHaywood 22-Dec-13 Banded Stilt 4 Sarnia Swamp, 5km w of Naracoorte Rosemary Miller 20-Feb-14 Barn Owl 1 Ellerslie, Glencoe Sue Black 29-Dec-13 Beautiful Firetail 5 Whynunga, Cape Jaffa Vicki Natt 31-Dec-13 Beautiful Firetail 1 wetland BTHaywood 19-Jan-14 Black Falcon 1 Wangolina Station, Cape Jaffa Vicki Natt 17-Jan-14 Black-faced Monarch 1 Princes Highway, Millicent Angela Jones 07-Dec-13 Blue-billed Duck 1 Keith Sewerage Ponds David Sando 24-Jan-14 Blue-billed Duck 8 Robe Treatment Ponds BTHaywood 25-Feb-14 Blue-winged Parrot 20 Mia Mia Crossing, Lake Bonney M Christie & Jean Haywood 20-Dec-13 Budgerigar 3 Hender Scrub, Keith David Sando 23-Feb-14 Crested Shrike-tit 1 Valley Lake Wildlife Park, Mt Gambier BirdLife SE SA outing 18-Feb-14 Diamond Dove 1 Pelican Point, Carpenter Rocks J Haywood, H Bawden & M Christie 23-Jan-14 Elegant Parrot C 20km N of Tea-tree Crossing, Coorong NP BTHaywood 10-Jan-14 Fork-tailed Swift 30-40 Whynunga, Cape Jaffa Vicki Natt 15-Dec-13 Freckled Duck 2 Bordertown Wetlands David Sando 31-Dec-13 Freckled Duck 4 Robe Treatment Ponds BTHaywood 24-Jan-14 Freckled Duck 30 Robe Treatment Ponds BTHaywood 04-Dec-13 Glossy Ibis 25 Thorpe's Swamp Paddock, Kingston Vicki Natt 31-Dec-13 Golden-headed Cisticola A Guichen Bay wetland BTHaywood 09-Jan-14 Great-crested Grebe 1 Glenelg River Estuary, Victoria BTHaywood 31-Dec-13 Hardhead 3500 Robe Treatment Ponds BTHaywood 18-Jan-14 Hooded Plover 2(b) Long Beach, Robe BTHaywood 29-Dec-13 Horsfield's Bronze-cuckoo 1 13 Tenison Drive, Mt Gambier B&N Dickins

April 2014 9 Sightings - November 2013 to March 2014

Date Common Name Abundance Location Observer/s 06-Jan-14 Hybrid Crimson/Eastern Rosella 1 Princes Highway, Millicent Angela Jones 16-Dec-13 Kelp Gull 14 Pick Swamp, Piccaninnie Ponds area BTHaywood 31-Dec-13 Latham's Snipe B Fox/Pub Lakes, Robe BTHaywood 06-Dec-13 Malleefowl 1 Blacket Scrub David Sando 23-Dec-13 Malleefowl 1 Coombe David Sando 10-Jan-14 Olive Whistler A Kywong Caravan Park, Nelson (Vic) BTHaywood 10-Jan-14 Olive Whistler 1 Heathland Walk, Cobboboonee National Park BTHaywood 22-Jan-14 Pacific Gull 3 2km S of Murray Mouth, Coorong NP BTHaywood 20-Dec-13 Peaceful Dove 1 Hender Scrub, Keith David Sando 29-Dec-13 Peregrine Falcon 1 Whynunga, Cape Jaffa Vicki Natt 04-Mar-14 Peregrine Falcon 1 15 McGregor St. Mt. Gambier Bob Green 15-Dec-13 Pink-eared Duck B Bordertown Wetlands David Sando 24-Jan-14 Pink-eared Duck C Robe Treatment Ponds BTHaywood 10-Jan-14 Powerful Owl 1 Kywong Caravan Park, Nelson (Vic) 1km N BTHaywood 14-Dec-13 Red-capped Robin 1 Carew Rd. Stone Reserve David Sando 18-Feb-14 Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo 4 Wandilo - Hackett Hill corridor P Feast 31-Dec-13 Rufous Bristlebird A Robe Treatment Ponds BTHaywood 31-Dec-13 Rufous Bristlebird A Guichen Bay Conservation Park BTHaywood 04-Jan-14 Rufous Bristlebird 1 Near Lighthouse Cottages, Cape Jaffa Vicki Natt 10-Jan-14 Rufous Bristlebird B Kywong Caravan Park, Nelson (Vic) BTHaywood 21-Jan-14 Rufous Bristlebird A Murray Mouth, Coorong NP BTHaywood 23-Jan-14 Rufous Bristlebird C 20km N of Tea-tree Crossing, Coorong NP BTHaywood 24-Jan-14 Rufous Bristlebird A 42 Mile Crossing, Coorong NP BTHaywood 24-Jan-14 Rufous Bristlebird 1 Dickins Scrub, Carpenter Rocks Neil Dickins 01-Mar-14 Rufous Bristlebird 1 Dickins Scrub, Carpenter Rocks Neil Dickins 29-Nov-13 Sacred Kingfisher 1 Poocher Swamp David Sando 02-Dec-13 Sacred Kingfisher 1 Long NFR (L1) Sue Black 06-Dec-13 Sacred Kingfisher 2 Daveys Plantation, Nangwarry BTHaywood 04-Jan-14 Sanderling 30-40 Beach near Lighthouse Cottages, Cape Jaffa Vicki Natt 18-Dec-13 Shy Heathwren 1 Desert Camp CP David Sando

April 2014 10 Sightings - November 2013 to March 2014

Date Common Name Abundance Location Observer/s 01-Jan-14 Sooty Oystercatcher B(b) Little Dip Conservation Park (Little Dip beach) BTHaywood & D Ballantyne 16-Dec-13 Southern Emu-wren B Pick Swamp, Piccaninnie Ponds area BTHaywood 31-Dec-13 Southern Emu-wren A Guichen Bay wetland BTHaywood 08-Jan-14 Southern Emu-wren 1 Piccaninnie Ponds Conservation Park BTHaywood 10-Jan-14 Southern Emu-wren 3 Lake Monibeong, Vic BTHaywood 10-Jan-14 Southern Emu-wren A Inkpot/Heath Roads, Cobboboonee National Park BTHaywood 06-Mar-14 Spotted Dove 1 5 Francis St, Mt Gambier B&N Dickins 03-Dec-13 Spotted Harrier 1 6km W of Naracoorte Rosemary Miller 10-Dec-13 Spotted Harrier 1 Kennedy Road, Glencoe BTHaywood 06-Jan-14 Spotted Harrier 1 Bay Road, Moorak B&T Haywood 28-Feb-14 Spotted Harrier 1 Rabbiters Rd, OB Flat Gwen Young 06-Mar-14 Spotted Harrier 1 Dow Road, Glencoe Sue Black 15-Dec-13 Straw-necked Ibis c.1000 Poocher Swamp David Sando 31-Dec-13 Striated Fieldwren A Guichen Bay wetland BTHaywood 23-Jan-14 Striated Fieldwren A 20km N of Tea-tree Crossing, Coorong NP BTHaywood 24-Jan-14 Striated Fieldwren A 42 Mile Crossing, Coorong NP BTHaywood 22-Jan-14 Swamp Harrier 1 Whynunga, Cape Jaffa Vicki Natt 23-Jan-14 Variegated Fairy-wren B 20km N of Tea-tree Crossing, Coorong NP BTHaywood 24-Jan-14 Variegated Fairy-wren A 42 Mile Crossing, Coorong NP BTHaywood 10-Jan-14 Whiskered Tern 6 Whynunga, Cape Jaffa Vicki Natt 14-Dec-13 Whistling Kite 3(b) Gum Waterhole David Sando 16-Mar-14 White-bellied Sea-Eagle 1 imm Pick Swamp B Green & J Campbell 16-Dec-13 White-browed Woodswallow D Darwent's Waterhole David Sando 20-Dec-13 White-browed Woodswallow c.1000 Hender Scrub, Keith David Sando 15-Dec-13 White-fronted Honeyeater 1 Bordertown Wetlands David Sando 16-Dec-13 White-headed Petrel b/w Pick Swamp, Piccaninnie Ponds area BTHaywood 25-Dec-13 White-naped Honeyeater 1 6 Francis St. Mt Gambier Ursula Dahl & Bernice Dickins 29-Dec-13 White-throated Gerygone 1 Snow Gum - Dry Creek corridor Bob Green 22-Feb-14 White-winged Chough 10 Rock Shelter Rd, Mount Burr Sue Black 06-Mar-14 White-winged Chough 10 Petherick Road, Willalooka Wayne Bigg

April 2014 11 Sightings - November 2013 to March 2014

Date Common Name Abundance Location Observer/s 04-Dec-13 White-winged Triller 1 5km W of Naracoorte Rosemary Miller 07-Dec-13 White-winged Triller 1 Mt Monster CP David Sando

Abundance Code: A = 1-3, B = 4-10, C = 11-30, D = 31-100, (b) = breeding, b/w = beachwashed

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